CSU Participates in the SkAI Conference

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The Open SkAI Conference is an annual four-day event to enhance and stimulate new Astro-AI research directions. This conference facilitates new collaborative activities between the AI industry, astronomers, and AI researchers, and stimulate new directions in community software and Astro-AI research.

Dr. Mohammad Abdus Salam, Chair of the Department of Computing, Information and Mathematical Sciences, and Technology at Chicago State University, served on the scientific organizing committee of the Open SkAI 2025 initiative. Under his mentorship, two graduate students from CSU participated and presented their research posters at the prestigious SkAI Institute Conference 2025, held from Tuesday, September 2 to Friday, September 5, 2025, in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

The conference convened leading experts, researchers, and students from academia, industry, and government to explore cutting-edge innovations and future directions in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in astrophysics.

CSU graduate student Ms. Anees Fatima presented her poster titled “AI-Driven Real-Time Cyber Threat Detection for Wi-Fi Networks,” which focused on leveraging AI to identify and mitigate wireless network vulnerabilities in real time. Meanwhile, Ms. Amera Firdous presented her research titled “AI Tools in Cybersecurity: Can Hackers Use ChatGPT Too?”—a thought-provoking study on the dual-use nature of AI technologies and their implications for cybersecurity defense and ethics.

Both students received travel grants from the NSF-Simons SkAI Institute, which supported their participation and research dissemination at the conference.

Dr. Salam commended his students for their outstanding research efforts and their exemplary representation of Chicago State University at this internationally recognized conference.

Poster titles and abstracts from the conference are available here.